artist/ Monika Nowak

France

Monika Nowak’s pop art masterpieces are explosions of creativity and imagination – intuitive, energetic and original. While her subjects display the attributes of pop culture’s classic heroines, being beautiful, provocative, powerful, humorous or stylish, they are also the product of her personal vision with contradictory traits such as fragility, sweetness and a lyricism. Their ‘comic strip’ origins link them to our childhood memories, adding an extra layer of nostalgia to render these works pop art at its most powerful.

Monika is passionate about human rights and uses her artworks to express her strong views about the status of women all over the world. She believes that it is important for art to promote the freedom of women, to show them acting outside social constraints. To do this, she plays with colour and design in unexpected ways, for instance, she may give her subject blue skin, making her appear like a deity emerging from the water; the use of the colour blue makes the character unplaceable, belonging both everywhere and nowhere, “building a bridge between all the populations and cultures of the globe.” There is no aggression in her work however, as she explains: “We artists are peaceful warriors, our talent and the strength of our expression are our weapons of massive conviction. We can only fight peacefully if we place the idea of ​​the human being, their dignity and their freedom, very high.